John Lennon's most famous quotes (and the ones that aren't his)
The top 3 according to 53 votes from people: We're more popular than Jesus now. · Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. · If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.. (Updated Aug 1, 2021.)
From 'We're more popular than Jesus' to the jewellery at the Royal Variety and 'I hope we passed the audition' on the rooftop: John Lennon's lines from interviews and concerts, with their date, plus the ones that go round under his name without being his.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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1
We're more popular than Jesus now.
Interview with Maureen Cleave in the Evening Standard, 4 March 1966.
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2
Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
Royal Variety Performance, London, 4 November 1963, before the Queen Mother.
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3
If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, 1 June 1969.
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4
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
The Beatles Anthology (2000).
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5
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Disputed: goes round under his name with no source to back it up.
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6
I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
End of the rooftop concert at Apple, 30 January 1969.
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7
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had.
Interview for RKO Radio on 8 December 1980, the day he was killed.
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8
Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.
Misattributed: it was a comedian's joke, not something Lennon said.
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9
It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
Interview with David Wigg, 25 October 1971.
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10
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
Introducing Chuck Berry on television, 1972.
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11
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Playboy interview, 1980, on the song 'I'm a Loser'.
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12
If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
Playboy interview, 1980.
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13
Before Elvis there was nothing.
Disputed: widely repeated, but with no reliable original source.
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